If you’re new to flatbed driving and securing your loads, it can be intimidating to get started. It can be a challenging, demanding job for even the best of us. If you don’t have the right tools to help you succeed, you can either be spending much more time than you need to be securing your loads or you might be doing harm to your body by doing it the wrong way.

Trying to decide if being a company driver is right for you? You’ve come to the right place. Deciding to be a company driver versus an independent contractor or an owner-operator is a difficult decision, especially nowadays in the midst of both a truck driver shortage and a truck parts shortage. One path versus the next could have a major impact on your wallet, and no driver ever wants that.

Did you decide the grass was greener on the other side and switched trucking companies recently? How do you know if the grass really IS greener on the other side? There’s nothing worse than thinking you found the perfect trucking company only to find out that everything you were told about the company was either a lie or the company was significantly misrepresented.